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This week my Hawaiian sister @WendieJoy and I talk about the season 2 finale of Hawaii Five-0 and do a bit of a wrap-up on the past season.

The Season 2 finale is entitled, “Ua Hala” (Death in the Family) and Wendie breaks down the title’s meaning in Hawaiian.

Other points we cover include:

-Was this Season’s ender- worth the hype and the wait?

-Good points- what we liked:)-

-Performances of the 4 main characters- what was awesome, who stood out.

-Constructive Criticism about the episode. Was it a copy-cat of last season? What’s up with other CBS season enders: Criminal Minds, NCIS and NCIS: LA etc. all having very large explosion filled episodes too!

-Reaction to Shelburne? Did we know, do we buy it, why would MOM stay away for so long?

-What we think will happen with these story lines in Season 3

-The addition of “Cath”, Steve’s navy love-interest, (played by Michelle Borth) to the cast next year.

-Our plans for the summer!

Thanks for tuning in to our little Podcast! Let us know what you think by leaving comments on the blog! Don’t forget to check in with @WendieJoy for new posts to her Five-0 Redux blog all summer at the Honolulu Star Advertisiser’s Pulse Website.

ALOHA and Welcome back to WebSouffle’s Hawaii Five-0 podcast, where we focus on discussing the CBS reboot of ‘Hawaii Five-0, set in beautiful Hawaii.

This week my Hawaiian sister, @WendieJoy and I talk about the latest new episode of Hawaii Five-0, the 18th of Season 2. Entitled, “Lekio” or “Radio” as it’s translated by CBS, it features special guest stars, Dennis Miller and James Caan, father of Scott Caan who plays Det. Danny Williams.

This week’s topics include:

-Wendie’s always fascinating breakdown of the title of the episode and how it’s more of an adaptation of an English word than a Hawaiian derivation,

-Cops and why we don’t envy them as parents (ie: Danny and Grace’s heart-to-heart about boys being evil) We also discuss the concept of “artistic license” and how they really don’t make enough to live at the Hilton Hawaiian Resort in Oahu!

-Danno’s shirtlessness (sorry, we HAD to go there!)

-Max’s freak-out after the kidnapping of the dead radio star’s body

-Caan “Squared” The fabulous James Caan appears on the show alongside McGarrett and Danny (his son, Scott Caan) with a performance that is a real Tour De Force. The banter, the laughs, and the nicknames are priceless! Not to mention the addition to the Carguement scenes! (For more about James Caan’s time on the set, see an excellent article written by one of Wendie’s colleagues at the Honolulu Star Advertiser, reporter Mike Gordon (aka @CrankyDad).

-Wendie elaborates on her Five-0 Redux Blog Post entitled, “Father Figure” and how this was the theme that permeated the episode. Perhaps the Hawaiian word for Father Figure should have been the real title of the episode!

and finally….

WEBSouffle and Wendie do talk about what we term ‘The Elephant In The Room’

-the latest news about Alex 0’Loughlin needing to take a little time off to get his health in order and how much love and support we and his fans all over the internet are sending his way.

For more on that I direct people to my friend Mizzoh’s great website AlexOLoughlinRocks.com to find a good article describing the situation.

“Hawaii Five-0” goes on a short hiatus for the next two weeks, with repeats of two of the more popular episodes from season two. “Mea Makamae” airs March 5, followed by “Ma‘ema‘e” on March 12. You can read Wendie’s reviews of these episodes at her blog, ‘The Five 0 Redux‘ at the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s Pulse Website, linked above.

And the next new episode 2.19, named Ka lele (“Faith” or “Support”)
will feature Ed Asner reprising a role he played from the original Hawaii Five-0 where Jack Lord’s McGarret (in this case, Steve’s father, Jack) put him in jail and now he is to be released. It will also star Taryn Manning as Steve’s sister, MaryAnn.

Finally, 5-0 fans and listeners, don’t forget to catch WendieJoy’s Five-0 Redux blog on the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s Pulse website. Its a great way to get your Hawaii Five-0 reviewed with a side order of Hawaiian culture!

Make sure to tune in again at alohavermont.com, leave your comments about the episodes and our podcast and please don’t forget to “Like” WEBSouffle’s Facebook Page for updates.

WELCOME back to WebSouffle’s Hawaii Five-0 podcast! This week teacher and blogger of the ‘Five -0 Redux’, Wendie Burbridge and I talk about Episode 17 of this season, entitled, “Kupale” and translated as “Defender” by CBS.

This week, besides burnt Frittatas, we will talk about:

-Weird Hawaii weather & Vog

-Wendie’s fascinating insights into Hawaii history -Including:

King Kamehameha’s Nakoa warriors & their battles

The Hawaiian martial art called Lua

The Pali Lookout’s origins

Hawaiian Tattoos

-The SHOW WE LOVE is BACK! We run down the List:

The fun, the Ohana, the Bromance, the Crazy, the Carguments, Gracie, Gabby, Kamekona

Swimming Danny (not to mention a slob and a bad cook)

Guest Stars: Apolo Anton Ohno as a bad guy, & Shane Victorino as a Company Team-builder

Please enjoy the podcast and don’t forget to tune in again next week. We welcome your feedback here on the blog at Alohavermont.com. If you haven’t yet done so, please become a Fan of the podcast and get the latest updates by “Liking” our Facebook page!

FIVE-0 TAKES ACCOUNT, SETTLES SCORES AND SAYS “ALOHA” TO LORI WESTON

WELCOME back to WebSouffle’s Hawaii Five-0 podcast! This week teacher, and writer for the ‘Five -0 Redux’ Wendie Burbridge and I, talk about Episode 16 of this season, entitled, “I Helu Pu” and translated as “The Reckoning” by CBS.

This week’s topics include:

-Wendie’s breakdown of the episode’s Hawaiian title and how it translates into the theme of this week’s show.

-The Black Tie Charity Event at the Hawaii Convention Center

-The Team Dynamic: Is it back for good?

-Steve’s Superhuman powers…are they over the top, literally?

-The Departure of Agent Weston

-Local Hawaiiana:

Radio personality, classic 5-0 actor, Kimo Kahoano who was security detail for the Governor

Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro and a bit about the Ukelele.

Haleiwa Joe’S

The “Wailana Cafe,” where Max went for pancakes

(**Update: For more scenes and locations for this episode please check out 3DHawaii.com ‘s blog post here)

-A little about the upcoming episode for Monday, Feb 20th entitled, “Kupale” which means “Defender” in Hawaiian according to CBS.

CBS states in it’s Press Release: Five-0 investigates the murder of a man dressed as a Hawaiian NaKoa warrior found in the jungle near the site of a historical war reenactment. Guest stars will include Philadelphia Phillies outfielder and Hawaii native Shane Victorino and Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno.

We also mention our friend, Officer808 and his great blog post on this episode that we recommend you read at his Five-0 Undercover Blog.

Please enjoy the podcast and don’t forget to tune in again next week. We welcome your feedback here on the blog atAlohavermont.com as well as on our Facebook page!

Welcome back to WEBsouffle’s Hawaii Five-0 Podcast Blog!

On Podcast Show#27 @WendieJoy (‘Five-0 Redux Blog’) and I discuss the 15th episode of the season, entitled “Mai Ka Wa Kahiko” (Out of the Past.) Both of us seem to agree with fans posting all over the internet that this was not only an intense and gripping show, but one of the best episodes of the 2nd season, due in no small part to Scott Caan’s amazing performance.

The Official CBS Summary stated:

“A dirty cop from Danno’s past comes to the island to exact revenge on Danno and his family for ruining his life, forcing the Five-0 to find a way to help their teammate.”

Aloha again Hawaii Five-0 Fans!

In this week’s podcast we have a discussion of the last new episode, S2Ep14, broadcast January 16th, and entitled, “Pu’olo” (aka “The Package”)

Tune in for a lively review and our take on the episode with me, @WEBSouffle of Vermont and Hawaiian local expert, teacher, writer and blogger @WendieJoy (Wendie Burbridge) of the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s Pulse Website where she writes a blog reviewing the show with a ‘side order of Hawaiian culture’ called “The Five-0 Redux.”

In this episode we review everything from

The big Shelburne reveal

Teen!Steve

New comedy duo: Kamekona and Sang Min

Danno’s Delivery

Kamekona’s new Subway diet

Popular Hawaiian storyteller Lopaka Kapanui

The Ninth Hawaiian Island, Las Vegas

Another nice local person who plays a bad one on TV

and a little about the next new episode scheduled to air February 6th called “Mai Ka Wā Kahiko” (‘Out of the Past’) which promises to be a very intense Danny-centric episode.

Remember to comment here on our podcast and on the next new episode on this post! Feedback is always welcome. Please also make sure to “LIKE” our Podcast blog’s Facebook page to keep up-to-date on show news and the next podcast!

Hau‘oli Makahiki Hou!!! That’s ‘Happy New Year’ In Hawaiian from your long lost blogger @WEBsouffle from Vermont!

It’s been a few months but we are finally able to get back to podcasting for 2012 with our reviews of the latest and greatest “Hawaii Five-0” episodes of the season!

As she has done in the past, my Hawaiian “sister” Wendie Joy Burbridge has graced us with her lovely presence on the podcast again from Oahu and we skyped this week about Season 2, Episode 13, “Ka Hoʻoponopono” (defined by CBS as ‘The Fix’ in English)

Topics covered by us:

-We delve into the best meaning for the title of the episode

-Partner Musical Chairs and the interchanging of the Five-0 Team pairings

-Lori & Danno’s High School Adventure vs. Lori & Kono’s High School Adventure

-Did we miss out on cell-phone interceptors on our Christmas lists?

-Steve & Danny’s foray into light police brutality

-Local Schools trending as locations for the production this season

-Have we been waiting too long for a resolution to the “Shelburne arc?

-General internet reaction to this week and the season so far

-Our “Lost” connection for the week

-Reader comments from the WEBsouffle Blog

-What’s in store for the next new episode?

Make sure to listen and post your comments here about the podcast. Feedback is always welcome. Please also make sure to “LIKE” our Podcast blog’s Facebook page to keep up-to-date on show news and the next podcast!

Much Mahalo to All from Vermont!

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A new podcast reviewing the latest Season 2 episode and the first of 2012 will be coming soon. Please feel free to post your comments and reactions attached to this post and they can be included in our upcoming show!

Some of you know that here in Vermont, I am in a Teaching Apprenticeship Program getting my endorsement as an Education Tech Integration Specialist.

Because of this, my time has been fully taken up being in the field working with my students and mentors while compiling a Teaching Portfolio.

So, every now and then for the next 7 months I need to take a break from the podcasts. I still have a really exciting one almost finished which I did a few weeks ago with @WendieJoy reviewing “Kameʻe.” This is when Wendie and I also talked a bit about my role as a Production Assistant on the show last July and August in Hawaii.

That one will be edited soon so keep checking back for updates here and on my Facebook page. Right now, I will have to cut back on the reviews weekly for a bit. Please don’t worry; I will return as time permits and post whenever I can.

Please feel free to leave comments in the mean time about any new or old episodes, and I’ll be sure to read and comment on them. I really appreciate your time being fans of my little podcast!

As per the request of some of our listeners, here is a place for leaving comments, likes & dislikes, theories and questions about the latest episode of Hawaii Five-0! Feel free to also comment on past episodes as well.

Here is the latest ‘Hawaii Five-0’ Podcast review of Season 2, Episode 2, airing September 26th and entitled, “Ua Lawe Wale” or ‘Taken’. Jools of The Five-0’s talked with me this week about our reaction to the much “calmer” follow-up to the premiere episode of the 2nd season of the show.

We discuss our impressions of the new girl on the team, Lori Weston, fashion changes we’ve noticed, the show traveling to Lanai, whether Kono is being left in the dust by the team, the McDanno “horseguement”and of course our “Theme” discussion of how the title of the episode ties into all the characters and the crime story of the week.

Please join me next week for our discussion of the 3rd episode, entitled, “Kame’e”. Thank you for listening and commenting.

Steve McGarrett In the New Governor's Waiting Room (courtesy of Rawr-caps.net)

I just recorded an ‘initial reaction’ podcast review of Episode 2.02 “Ua Lawe Wale” from Monday, September 26th with Jools of “The Five-0’s” which I hope to be finished editing very soon and posted here.

Please feel free to post any comments about that episode or past podcasts here below if you like, and I may read them on my next podcast!

@WendieJoy Burbridge is an Oahu native, a great friend of our “Hawaii In Vermont” Podcast (a dear friend of mine, too!) and of course is the author of the The Five-0 Redux Blogon the “Honolulu Star Advertiser.”

Fortunately, this busy lady had some rare free time this week on her long commute home from her day job as a teacher and you can be darn sure I took advantage! Thanks to technology, we were able to Skype between her car and my computer in Vermont and have an even more in depth conversation than my “initial reaction podcast” (Show #21) about the new episode of the 2nd season.

I really wanted to get Wendie’s perspective on “Ha ‘i’ ole” because of her two unique points of view.

One point of view we talk about was what it was like for her to have already seen this episode over 2 weeks before it’s Network Premiere at ‘Sunset At The Beach’ in Waikiki on a big screen. I asked Wendie to compare seeing it there to seeing it at home on a tv or computer screen.

The other aspect I was curious about of course, was how being an islander affected her perspective and/or enjoyment of the episode. This was was quite interesting and we learn more about the title “Ha ‘i’ ole” and it’s meaning from Wendie who also wrote about it in her pre-episode post on her The Five-0 Redux blog. We also learn some interesting trivia about the opening cemetery scene and the beautiful singing by the Honolulu boys choir.

We talk about fugitive Steve McGarrett’s Halawa Jail breakout and his appearance. (Apparently it’s not that unusual because breakouts from prison have happened before!) In addition, we also have fun discussing the new character, Max and how all the banter and bromance between Steve and Dannyhappily seems intact. There is the usual probing of the themes and characters of the show which we always include as a part of our discussion. We also give our opinions of the plot and the crazy twist at the end.

Finally, we talk about some of the extras on the just released DVD of the first season of the show and some of the deleted scenes we have seen and which we wished had been a part of the original episodes they belonged to.

Wendie’s only regret is having met Mark Dacascos (Wo Fat) on the Red Carpet a few weeks ago, and having to hate his character on the show, even though he was such a nice guy in real life. Oh, well, she will just have to accept having love/hate relationship with him!

Tune in for our next “Hawaii In Vermont” H50 podcast review sometime after next week’s all new 2nd episode of the new season, “Ua Lawe Wale (Taken.) The official press release for the episode from CBS says:

GOVERNOR DENNING ASSIGNS A NEW MEMBER TO FIVE-0’S TASK FORCE, AND THE HEAT IS ON FOR KONO, ON “HAWAII FIVE-0,” MONDAY, SEPT. 26

Gov. Denning assigns Officer Lori Weston to Five-0 to make sure McGarrett and team follow the new rules set by him and also apply her excellent profiling skills to the task force. Meanwhile, as Five-0 investigates the kidnapping of a teenage paddleboard champion, Internal Affairs Capt. Vince Fryer continues his interrogation of Kono, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Monday, Sept. 26

Thanks for listening! Talk to you soon, ALOHA!

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Alex O'Loughlin as Steve McGarrett may be a prisoner in Halawa Prison but he takes none too in S2E1 "Ha'i'ole (screencap courtesy of AlexOLoughlinRocks.com)

So it finally happened! The Season 2 Premiere came and boy was it good!

Well that’s what Jools of The Five 0’s and I think of it and what we talk about in my first “Initial Reaction” #H50 Podcast Review of Season 2, Episode #1 entitled “Ha’i’ole.

I usually wait to let the episodes percolate in my brain a bit and process things and then I look for quotes and locations and trivia but …..I just couldn’t wait!!!! How could I ?

I along with most of you out there, have been waiting 3 months and even longer than some who were lucky enough to see the episode over 10 days ago in Hawaii at Sunset On The Beach in Waikiki. I had plenty of chances for those spoilers and tidbits and behind-the-scene videos to take a peak… but I did avoid almost all of them! Just a few pictures here and there, but I really wanted to enjoy the first episode!

So as quick as Kamekona starting a new business, I sat down this afternoon (evening for her) with Jools and we just chatted and laughed about this fantastic episode and recounted our first reactions. Jools had some great talking points. They are:

– Hesse changing sides

– How badass McG was

– Max aka Kermit! That character is really funny

– Danno’s ex baby.

– The new Gov

– How Chin Ho always had McG’s back

– Lt. Cmdr. Joe White – loved how mellow he is

– What Makoto told McG

– If McG Senior is involved or was pretending to be mates with Wo Fat

– How Wo Fat will resort to anything to protect himself. Very happy to see more of him finally!!!

– And the freaking ending!!!!!

It’s not too, too long (only 45 minutes this time, Yay!) and there’s no locations or trivia about stars, (well not too much) and just us gals rambling on about it. I hope you enjoy it and make sure to check out Jool’s newly launched website at http://www.thefive0s.org/ You might also like to take part in the Tweet up about the episodes which take place o Wednesday’s at 8pm EST which you can do at http://thefive0s.posterous.com/pages/h50tinis .

Don’t worry, I do plan on eventually posting locations and trivia for the episode soon, so keep an eye on this website and my Facebook page. I also hope to get a discussion later this week from my Hawaiian sis, @WendieJoy Burbridge of the Five-0 Redux blog to weigh in and discuss her favorite moments, so make sure to tune in again soon.

Wendie Burbridge and Masi Oka at SOTB2 in Waikiki on the Red Carpet (courtesy of Christie Wilson & the Star Advertiser)

As promised in our last post, the “Hawaii In Vermont” #H50 Podcast has indeed managed to snag a nice little interview with talented Hawaiian Blogger,writer, and teacher and now reporter, WendieJoy Burbridge!

Wendie, as our listeners know, is a great friend of the show, and writes the “Five-0 Redux” Blog. Hers is one of the few blog reviews of the show with a distinctly Hawaiian point of view, since she lives and works on the island of Oahu!

Today, one day before the Network TV Premiere of the 2nd season of Hawaii Five-0, Wendie gave us a bit of her Sunday. She told us that the excitement of last week’s 2nd season World Premiere Red Carpet event at Sunset On The Beach keeps on coming and she hasn’t even had time to process it all.

Even this weekend, when we caught up with her she was driving to meet some Five-0 fans who came a long way to celebrate the network premiere tomorrow night and who she was going to Sunday brunch with in Waikiki.

So even though we were unable to Skype with her, we were able to get some audio through an iPhone and I felt it was decent enough to share with our fans!

Our podcast mainly covers her experience being on the Red Carpet for the World Premiere and representing the “Honolulu Star Advertiser” as a reporter there.

Wendie discusses her schedule for that day, how she prepared for her reporting gig and who her favorite interviews were with. She also tells us how she managed to interview stars like Alex O’loughlin and not faint!

In addition, we get a quick lowdown on what’s in store for the rest of us when we finally get to see the 1st episode of the new season, Monday, September 19th and how amazing it will be. Wendie’s husband, Chief, also gives us his perspective as a spectator on the beach that night!

So sit back and relax as we offer up this little appetizer as a precursor to tomorrow night’s premiere episode of ‘Hawaii Five-0’ entitled “Ha’i’ole.”

Make sure to stay tuned here and our facebook.com/alohavermont page for details about when our initial reaction podcast will be posted soon after the 1st episode of season 2 premieres!

Well, an amazing time was had by all last night in Hawaii at the ‘Sunset On The Beach’ Red Carpet Event in Waikiki, celebrating the world premiere of the 2nd season of our favorite primetime drama, the new hit series “Hawaii Five-0”!

I was lucky enough to get to do a little color and commentary with @AlohaBruce at his special UStream Live feed of 3 cameras on the event that his Hawaii-Aloha.com Travel company sponsored. Although it wasn’t the only coverage, it was one of the few with great angles, sound , music and especially glimpses of the stars walking the red carpet at Queens Beach in Waikiki.

Check back here soon for a @Websouffle Podcast Wrap-up of the fantastic SOTB coverage, star interviews and other blogger impressions. I will post details about that soon on our AlohaVermont Facebook page. I hope to get writer, blogger @WendieJoy on again for a great discussion of her experience on the Red Carpet as well as how she managed to interview Alex O’Loughlin and other stars of the show without fainting!

In the mean time, check out my friend Mizzoh’s excellent SOTB2 overview at her website, AlexOLoughlinRocks.com and extensive links to the going’s on Saturday night at Sunset On The Beach in Waikiki!

Also, please don’t forget to check out my lovely and talented Hawaiian sis, @WendieJoy Burbridge’s awesome and sublime article of her experience last night on the Red Carpet at her Five-0 Redux Blog here!

Mahalo, and Check back soon!

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Mizzoh and I talked not only about what you can find on her site and it’s origin, but of course we talked about Alex O’Loughlin’s career and what led up to his role in Hawaii Five-o. We discussed his acting training, different acting gigs and what he’s done with the character of Steve McGarrett. Mizzoh was extremely well-spoken and wonderful to interview.

When the new season starts back, you must definitely not miss her weekly AOLR Wrap Ups, for everything that happened in Hawaii Five-O and Alex news, as well as her summarized listings of the best of the recaps. She has done the hard work for you in finding the best of those to read! You can also find Mizzoh at her email mizzoh@alexoloughlinrocks.com and on twitter at @AOLRocks as well!

Mahalo as always for listening and Aloha until next time!

Correction: I incorrectly stated in the podcast introduction that this was Summer Interview Series episode # 5, but it is actually # 6. The Hawaii In Vermont Podcast Summer Interview Series #5 was the one I did with actor Will Yun Lee, who plays “Sang Min” on Hawaii Five-0.

One of our online Hawaii Five-0 Blogger friends, who we just featured in our 3rd Hawaii In Vermont Summer Interview series, The Five-0’s, just made it to prime time! Hawaii News Now featured the Facebook page of the Five-0s and their super fun special feature game of screencaps with captions to fill in. Here’s a video of that. It’s funny and cool! Congratulations to our Friend, Jools and the rest of the Five 0’s, @LisaLisa98 and @Terrysagirl!

According to an exclusive report by Matt Mitovich of TVline.com, The Hawaii Five-0 team will be welcoming a new member — and a possible new love interest for Steve McGarret with the addition of actress, Lauren German to the cast. The actress has been in a lot of TV’s and movies, most well known of which is Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003.) You can take a look at her experience at her IMDB profile.

Apparently she will be an appointee by the new Governor of Hawaii played by another addition to the cast, Richard T. Jones. She is a former Homeland Security officer and asked to join the Five-0 task force to keep tabs on the Five-0 Team.

This makes it 5 as the number of cast members added so far to the upcoming season, though there’s no telling how long they will be sticking around! German will joining Jones (of Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles,) Masi Oka (formerly of Heroes) who will now be a series regular as Max the coronor, Terry O’Quinn (formerly of “Lost”) as Steve’s Navy SEAL trainer and film star, Tom Sizemore, who will be heading up an Internal Affairs investigation into the Five-0 Team’s activities.

Update: Here is a cool scene from the 2nd Season of just canceled series “Human Target” in which Lauren German is a Spy and tangles with the main character in a very funny way. I think the actress shines in it and shows off her skills!

‘Hawaii In Vermont’, the Hawaii Five-0 Podcast, continues its Summer Interview Series with Episode#5 and is delighted to be able to present an interview with our first actor from the show, Will Yun Lee!

As fans know, the just-turned 40 year old actor, plays the rascally ‘Sang Min’, a sometime human trafficker and accomplice of Steve’s nemesis, Victor Hesse.

Fans have reacted to his Hawaii Five-0 appearances with clamors for “more Sang Min!” This is most likely due to the way Will has been able to imbue the character with such interesting nuance. Sang Min is a crazy over-the-top criminal businessman with a sympathetic side. In the 4 episodes he has appeared in from the 1st season (Pilot, Manaʻo, Hana ʻaʻa Makehewa & Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau,) he has had some extremely lively, snarky and sometimes quite serious scenes with Five-0 Team members.

Will was an extremely gracious interviewee! He took the time to answer everything in a thoughtful way. One of the most interesting parts of the interview is when he talks about how he got the role and what went into originating it.

Other things we talk about in the interview:

His start in Acting

First roles

His Experience on the Bond Film, “Die Another Day” (Yes, I asked him if he met Madonna!)

Playing villians

Roles for Asian-Americans

His Martial Arts background (His father was A Taekwondo grandmasterin the US and he himself was on the Berkeley University, Cal Taekwondo team for four years)

His experience on the Hawaii Five-0 Set and what he did to prepare for the part

Does he think he’ll be back for the 2nd season?

And many more!

Future projects for Will include taking the lead in the Wych ‘Kaos’ Kaosayananda-directed drama “Bangkok Love Story”, starring opposite Camilla Belle as “a retired Muay Thai fighter-turned-monk who returns to the world he left behind many years ago.”

It’s also been reported in Variety that he has been added to his friend, Len Wiseman’s “Total Recall” reboot (the original starred, Arnold Schwarzenegger) and to the cast of futuristic freedom fighters in the movie. Variety says he will be taking the role of ‘Marek’, a close friend and co-worker of Colin Farrell’s protagonist.

The film that Will just completed shooting in Toronto, and mentioned in the Podcast, is “Cobu 3D,” which stars Derek Hough and international pop icon Kwon Boa. The story concerns a pair of star-crossed dancers (like in “Step Up”) who find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers’ underground dance clubs in New York. Lee will play an upscale nightclub owner who feuds with his former business partner. It’s a twist to the ‘Romeo & Juliet’ story. The film is produced by CJ Entertainment, the largest production co. in Korea.

I must not forget to give a big mahalo to a sister Hawaii Five-0 fan and podcaster, Amy Bakari, who made it possible for me to arrange this interview with Will!

If you would like to hear more from Will, Amy had the first interview with him since he took on the role of ‘Sang Min’ She had him as a guest on her “In My Pajamas” show on Internet Blog Radio. You can listen to that interview here.

You can look forward to more interviews from Amy and I soon! In fact we are slated to interview Executive Producer, Peter Lenkov, next week! Stay tune here and to Amy’s and my twitter feeds for more details!

Mahalo to all my kind listeners and blog readers! See you soon! Aloooooha!

Today’s show features an H50 blogger with some seriously awesome writing skills. She’s author of the immensely engrossing Hawaii 5- 0 Sardonic Recaps where I have found some of the most pithy, snarky, sexy and hilarious reviews of our favorite show that exist on the internet today. If you were/are a fan of “Television Without Pity” a smart-alecky network-tv recap website, you will recognize the style.

But as ‘Sardonic’ tells us, she kids because she loves!

@H50Sardonic, or “Sardonic” as she refers to herself, hails from Canada and is no stranger to writing. This is not her first blog, but it is her funniest and it is a labor of love that is unique, creative, and I believe highly entertaining for fans.

The Sardonic site as you will soon find after a visit, has a racy, fresh and sassy “tone” woven throughout her website which you will find nowhere else. As an example, she calls Steve “McPanty Destroyer” and her web heading insists the recaps exist “Because McG + The 5-0s make my panties giggle.” Whooo-ahhh! (teee heee)

I found her extensive (and boy do I mean, “extensive!”) recaps of each episode are filled with delightful irreverence. This is a super-fan’s nirvana because the recaps are long and engrossing, but they are also quite ridiculously funny!

The site is also helped out by a very helpful yet saucy list of “terms” that readers will need to consult before delving into the recaps. I made “Sardonic” share a little of her special “Sardonictionary” with my listeners which I hope you find as hilarious as I did.

This particular podcast show is a little longer than usual so we can give you some samples of what you will find in her recaps and on her site. It’s also longer because I asked Sardonic to discuss Season One Themes for the series, and we do it in a very lively manner!

As a caveat, remember, you may not always agree with some of the opinions we express, and comedy is a very personal thing! So, if her humor is not to your taste that is quite alright! I love when bloggers show us a unique and different way to appreciate our fandom and hope you agree!

I also think it is important that we get to talk honestly about the different ways we feel about what we see in our show. I believe you will find our interview provocative and entertaining. I certainly did! I couldn’t stop laughing while editing and so didn’t finish until hours after I normally do.

So we get this picture…tantalizing yes! We get to see the name tags for Peter Lenkov, Daniel Dae Kim and even new addition to the cast, Terry O’Quinn, who apparently will be named Lt CMDR Joe White. We also get the front page of what looks like the script that the cast gathered to run through today. The title is what is intriguing to us since we know how much the Writers of the show like to tease us with Hawaiian words and possibly give us a tiny hint about what the episode might be about! And of course, it’s the first one after our explosive finale last May!

Which actually makes sense if we think about our tough, hard, impudent and stubborn Five-0 Team!!!! ‘Unbreakable’ is what I would call them for sure!!!

However, when talking with our friend @WendieJoy, writer of the Five-0 Redux Blog, she tells us, that though she’s not a fluent ‘Hawaiian’ speaker, she can say this:

“‘iole’ is Hawaiian rat, “Ha’i’ole” is stubborn or unbreakable. The okina is VERY important in Hawaiian language, so it depends on where the okina is in the word b/c it changes the meaning… I saw the pic of the script and it only has one ‘okina- ‘okina is a glottal stop. It is an actual letter in our language b/c adding it changes the meaning of the word… like this one… adding another ‘okina changes the meaning completely.

It is very important…it’s not an accent mark, it’s a stop… it changes pronunciation of words… but does not create a stress like an accent mark. it looks like a backwards apostrophe… but obviously on the keyboard you have to use a apostrophe unless you have a hawaiian keyboard.”

So, we don’t know, but @WendieJoy has promised to ask someone close to her who is fluent to get his take on it and I will post that here!

Perhaps this is what the writers really want! Maybe they do want us to think about the dual meanings. We know they use consultants for the language….sometimes we’ve wondered if the consultants knew what they were talking about. In any case…it just makes it more enticing for us in our long “hellatus” before the premiere of the episode on September 19th!

Continuing on with our Summer Interview Series with Hawaii Five-0 Bloggers and big contributors to the Fan Community, our latest episode puts the spotlight on the founder of The Five-0’s, ‘Jools‘ and her Hawaiian cohort, @LisaLisa98 of Lisa Woo Designs. We find out the origin of The Five-0 blogs that have “All the Inside Info to Your Favorite Show” and those who are behind it!

This conversation was very cool because we were able to Skype in 3 different locations this time. Jools hails from the UK in London, I was at a soccer tournament in Pennsylvania, and Lisa was Skyping with us from Hawaii! That’s a span of 11 hours between all of us, so it took some time juggling! In the end I think you will like where our conversation takes us!

Jools tells us how The Five-0’s fan community and sites work, about international followers and very interesting conversations about ‘Hawaii Five-0″ on the net.

Some have taken place with the key people connected to the show , along with the fans. She also tells us what you’ll find if you follow her blogs as well as @TheFive0s on twitter! Jools also has a very ethical policy about cast privacy and what kind of pictures you “won’t” find on the blogs!

Friend of our show, @WendieJoy is also friends with The Five-0’s, and knows Lisa Woo, on Oahu (it’s a small island, after all!) Wendie featured her story of being an extra on the set of Hawaii Five-0 for an episode of Season 1, wearing her own costume design in the Five-0 Redux blog, recently!

Lisa tells us in our podcast too, the whole story of how that came about and her short but meaningful meeting with star, Alex 0’Loughlin! She gifted him with really cool Twitter booklets for the 4 leads that were a labor of love from TheFive-0’s of fans tweets and mentions! You can see examples of those at The Five 0’s Tumblr blog.

For more information about these ladies and all their important Ohana contributors please navigate to their sites at:

As a recent post here at “Hawaii In Vermont” Podcast Blog reported, our friend of the show, Hawaiian Blogger @AlohaBruce of the Hawaii-Aloha.com Travel website, recently arranged some special events planned around CBS’s ‘Sunset On The Beach’ Red Carpet event in the fall.

That event, happening on Saturday, September 10th, 2011 on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii is free for fans and designed to showcase the 1st new episode of the 2nd season of “Hawaii Five-0.” Attendees will see the stars of the show walk the red carpet and get a special preview of the episode, 9 days earlier than the rest of the US TV Audience.

Bruce has put together a schedule of additional special events arranged in a travel package for fans that wish to enhance their vacation to Hawaii with “Hawaii Five-0” related activities.

Got this Tweet from @PLenkov late Friday. After the big casting announcement about Richard T. Jones landing the role of the new Governor, I got to thinking that with everything Steve’s going through he was going to need his sister to maybe lend some support! Thought I would reach out to the wonderful actress who played her in the First season of H50, Taryn Manning, because she is active in the twitterverse and responsive to her fans!

TV guide is reporting as of today, July 1st, that the casting for the role of the new governor on “Hawaii Five-0” is completed.

The actor who won the role,Richard T. Jones, as it turns out is not local, but he does have experience in several TV series.

Although Executive Producer Peter Lenkov had mentioned that the production would be interested in casting an actor local to Hawaii, he also said the best fit was what would determine who got the part. Jones, born in Japan, has quite a pedigree of TV roles.

According to the TVGuide.com article by William Keck:

“Since Jean Smart’s Gov. Pat Jameson was gunned down after being exposed as a traitor in bed with Wo-Fat in Hawaii Five-0’s stunning game-changing season finale, there’s been an opening to fill in the Honolulu governor’s mansion. Not anymore. Stepping in to the office will be Jameson’s as-yet-unseen Lt. Governor, to be played by actor Richard T.Jones.

Richard has several series-regular roles under his belt. Most recently he played Ellison on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Prior to that, he appeared on “Girlfriends” and “Judging Amy.”

For more on this story you can read the TV-Guide article at this link, Meredith Jacob’s Gather.com article or the BuddyTV.com article here.

Zap2it recently caught up with Scott Caan this week and asked him to comment on the new additions to the Five-0 cast. As we reported here, those included Terry O’ Quinn from “Lost” and Tom Sizemore from “Saving Private Ryan.” Turns out he had some very positive things to say. You can
read his opinions in the full article, here:

Bruce Fisher (@AlohaBruce) & friend of our ‘Hawaii In Vermont’ Podcast & Blog is owner of Hawaii Aloha Travel and has just launched a dedicated website for Hawaii Five-0 Sunset on the Beach 2011.

He has organized a fan weekend schedule especially designed for Hawaii Five-0 Fans visiting Hawaii the 1st week of September when the main Sunset On The Beach Red Carpet Event in Waikiki takes place on September 10th, 2011.

It’s a nice package of exciting events he has lined up for those who want the full “Hawaii Five-0” experience during their stay. In addition, Bruce has enlisted the aid of “Bob Bouz” for writing and organizing the tour portion of the Hawaii Five-0 SOTB adventure. ‘Hawaii In Vermont” followers know “Bob” aka @H50Undercover aka Officer808 is also a friend of our show and is the author of the 50Undercover.com blog.

Make sure to stay up to date on the very cool activities Bob and Bruce have in store for this amazing event in Waikiki starting Sept 8th!

Last May, the latest podcasting effort from the Hawaii couple behind one of most successful podcasts devoted to the TV show “LOST” was launched. It’s a new daily pop culture show called “Popspotting” and it is available at their website.

Honolulu husband and wife, Ryan and Jen Ozawa, hosts of “The Transmission,” launched “Popspotting” on May 23, exactly one year after “LOST” left the airwaves. As my listeners may know, their “Lost” podcast was my inspiration for launching my own show for “Hawaii Five-0!” Ryan and Jen are friends who helped me with my podcast and I interviewed Ryan when I was in Honolulu last winter as part of my “Hawaiian Blogger Series.” Ryan told us then he was working on the new show and I’m excited to see it has finally launched! You can also subscribe to it on iTunes, of course!

An article on their website describes it, “…instead of devoting over an hour of conversation a week to a single show, “Popspotting” serves up a bite-sized chat every weekday, and covers movies, television, music, books, and much more.”

In their May 31st episode, #59 they chose to review “Hawaii Five-0,” the reboot of the classic cop show on CBS, and NBC’s “Chuck.”

As the description they wrote of this show describes, they “…harbor no illusions that “Five-0″ is a gripping, original cop show, and Jen only watches when she’s in the mood for its particular brand of melodrama. Scott Caan is the standout star, and his chemistry with both Alex O’Loughlin and Claire van der Boom makes for some great scenes. We only wish Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park had more interesting things to do. Still, we’re having fun, and we loved the first season finale.”

So to see how great they are as a podcasting team and their perspective on a show that’s shot in their back yards, check out the full podcast at their website!

Tom Sizemore from “Saving Private Ryan” will have a role in the new season of “Hawaii Five-0” as the head of Internal Affairs for HPD. Apparently the Five-0 team
has some “‘splaining to do!!” about last year’s exploits!

Some fans, myself included, have watched a certain oft-used prop in ‘Hawaii Five-0‘s’ first season with particular fascination. That prop is what is fondly referred to by many reviewers as the ‘Magic’ table or surface work table that the Five-o Task team, and especially Chin Ho Kelly have utilized to help with their cases.

At the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s Interactive website you can find pictures and background information on the Surface Table from when reporter Mike Gordon (aka @CrankyDad) toured the studio last winter.

Here is what we learn from the site and video so we can indulge our inner geekdom:

The table is a 52 inch flat screen TV on his back in the middle of a black table

Video Engineer, Dan Helias, creates and controls the displays that appear on the table. He programs the images for the surface table and all its overhead monitors on a series of smaller computers at his workstation elsewhere.

Helias explains that the ‘touch table’ is based on the Microsoft Surface 2.0 which was too small for their needs because it had to be big enough to line up the 4 main actors around it for the show to play on.

The fake TV is fed from a Mac Mini from 100 ft away.

They send an HDMI signal over ethernet cables using a converter which sends the image to the Surface Table.

The images on the tabletop in front of a user are able to be sent to screens at the right with a sweep of a hand. This all-in-one-movement in reality is Dan operating two different computers at once.

Three 42 inch monitors hang from a custom built rack near the Five-0 team’s surface table fed by a separate table.

The team’s office spaces are located to the left of the high tech computers and surface table area in HQ

UPDATE: On June 19th Mike wrote this about the set at the Old Post Office which he toured and was used last season:

“Nothing is permanent in the world of television stage sets, even when they’re functional. Case in point: the headquarters set of “Hawaii Five-0,” which was built in an unused storage area of the downtown post office. It’s gone.

What was once a suite of functional offices created as a backdrop for the show’s characters — complete with dark wood trim, wanted posters and character-inspired desk decorations — is once again an empty space.

“There’s not a sign that they were ever there,” said Duke Gonzales, spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service in Hawaii.”

There are no discussions to rebuild the set, he said. CBS would only say that the HQ set, as it’s known, “is under transition.”

**We should not be alarmed however, because back in February, Hawaii News Now ran this story at their website and on tv, which showed us the production crew was already thinking ahead and moving the set into the old Honolulu Advertiser Building!

New set built for "Hawaii Five-0" in former Honolulu Advertiser Building

This repost was my first time Skyping with Guest- Host, Hawaiian Blogger @WendieJoy This podcast covered a wide range of topics: from how Wendie goes about coming up with her thoughtful articles, to Hawaiian culture, language, locations, restaurants as well as a lively discussion of this lovely episode, “Ma Ke Kahakai.” (On the shore, or On the beach in Hawaiian)

In this repost we discussed the final episode of Hawaii Five-0’s first season entitled, Oia’i’o or “Truth.”

Both are friends of the show and were featured here on this blog in our “Hawaiian Bloggers” Series a few months ago. Both have extremely popular and fascinating blogs which give us the kind of insight into Hawaii Five-0 that you will find nowhere else on the the Internet, and I highly recommend you become fans of their sites. Highlights of our 10th show:

• ‘Danny/Rachel’ developments,

• Morality & Truth of our characters

• What we think the future holds for our team next season!

Things you’ll hear about in the podcast:

-We needed to find or create a Hawaiian word for “Yippee Kai Ay! We got a Second Season!” (I’m not pronouncing it if we do find one!)

-Sand Island is romantic. NOT! Not the first choice for telling someone you love, you’re gonna have their love child.

-Wo Fat conspiracy theories are floated.- I come up with a theory for how the writers might get Danny and Rachel outta this mess! (It’s my theory and I’m sticking to it!!!)

-We also get a great piece of trivia (again, Thanks to listener, Bill!!!) about one of the character actors in the finale, who is a friend of Scott Caan. He appeared in a play about 9/11 that Scott wrote, and has a connection to one of my favorite character’s in “Lost”, Mark Pellegrino!

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Continuing our summer reposts of past ‘Hawaii In Vermont’ podcasts; the next on the list is Ep#7 and our review of Show# 21 entitled, “Ho’opa’i’ .

We were lucky to be joined by guest-host, Hawaiian Blogger, @WendieJoy of the Five-0 Redux blog at Honolulupulse.com. The episode was notable for guest star, Sean Combs.

In reviewing this episode we talked about

•The meaning of the episode’s title “Ho’opa’i’ as interpreted by CBS and within the spirit of the Hawaiian Language (The CBS summary had the title meaning “Close To Heart” but it usually defined in Hawaiian dictionaries as “To Slap”.)

•The culture and origin of Spam-love in Hawaii; is it “icky” or truly the ‘nectar of the islands’?

•The possibility of inviting Sean Combs to be a member of the Five-0 Task force; weren’t they really just being polite?

I know, it’s not new, but I loved the posters made from this shoot and thought some of you might not have seen the video of our cast clowning around in all that water. It’s cute, hot and funny and you can read more about the shoot here! So enjoy! Scott even cracks a smile! Aloha!
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Welcome to the 1st episode of our Summer Interview series! In today’s show, I interviewed Gaby, aka @H50Germany. She lives in Vienna, Austria and is one of the founders of a large fan community serving Germany and other international fans of many cult American TV series, just recently including the new Hawaii Five-0 tv series.

Gaby, also known as @angelinchains67, is a amateur photographer and creates a lot of fan art, wallpapers and music videos. One of these pictures for the H50 finale caught the eye of Hawaii Five-0 producer, Peter Lenkov who commented on it to her on Twitter. This eventually led to a great exclusive interview with Peter which you can read here!

Our discussion covers a lot of ground and I think fans will find it fascinating! Topics Include:

How she started the fansites and her love of the show Supernatural.

How she creates her fanvideos.

Alex o’Loughlin’s role in the series “Three Rivers”, how good that series was and why it probably didn’t last.

Her interview with Peter Lenkov and how she formulated questions he would respond to.

What International fan members think of the ‘bromance’, ‘carguements’ and of Agent Jenna Kaye.

AngelInChains fan community is made up of many sites and caters to more than just one fandom having primarily started as a fan site for the cool American TV Series, Supernatural.

The primary web address to get to all of the information about our series as well as many other american tv cult series such as Vampire Diaries, True Blood, etc. can be found at her portal, angelinchains.com

Her sites originally were founded to promote Supernatural, but you can also find news, info and links in German and English for other series as well. They are trying to build an audience to support our show over there so lend them your support by visiting the sites!

One of best of Gaby’s sites for our show is SerienNews where you will find the latest dedicated Hawaii Five-0 News and a link on the sidebar to their gallery of pictures.

Here is some background on the sites from Gaby:

“My BF is the webmaster of these sites and administrator. He is responsible for the technical part, make things working. I’m part of the team consisting of 3 mods and two news mod, I’m one of them. Therefore providing the site with the latest infos on TV-shows but also on other things – like what happens around the world. But ususally we get input from all our members. They’re also providing us with pictures.

www.angelinchains.com was the “Mother” of the sites. We host more than 10.000 pictures so far on this site. Including pictures of Conventions, HQ Screencaps of Supernatural Episodes and my FanArts. angelinchains.com was launched in 2008 and has more than 200.000 hits so far (5/2011). Last year in July we decided to get online with a fanforum www.mycoven.com …we started with a multifandom community. We’ve about 300 members so far, still growing. … I represent the community on Twitter and Facebook. I’ve learned a lot as being part of the Supernatural fandom – very active in supporting the show, spreading the word etc. And that’s what we want to do for H50 as well.”

It was great having Gaby on and I look forward to having more great discussions with her and doing some reviews as well on future episodes of “Hawaii In the Vermont”

Terry O'Quinn of "Lost" Yes, he can play a Navy Seal! Courtesy of Time Inc.

No it’s not one of Steve McGarrett’s sappy songs, he loves so much….it’s a mini “Lost” Reunion! Thanks to @Officer808 and his Hawaii 50Undercover.com blog for the heads up!!

Word came midday today, from CBS and Michael Ausiello of TVLine. com and who originally broke the story, that Emmy-Award Winning “Lost” actor, Terry O’Quinn, who played the iconic ‘John Locke’ for 6 seasons on ABC will be joining the cast of “Hawaii Five-0” for an important recurring role as a former Navy SEAL commander who trained McGarrett and who also served with Steve’s dad in the Vietnam War. He will be holding the key to some of the mysteries (again!) to unlocking Steve’s Dad’s past.

As @Officer808 in his 50Undercover.com blog says in his article today about it, “Losties will rejoice upon hearing the news” So we will!

Here are some other articles around the net that have additional information about this exciting news:

In this reposted “Hawaii In Vermont” Episode #5 we reviewed the Hawaii Five-0′ broadcast of Ne Me’e Laua Na Paio, (“Heroes and Villains” in Hawaiian.) It was originally shown on Mar 21st, 2011.

We talk about the newest addition to the Five-0 Team, Agent Jenna Kaye, who we are both a bit skeptical about, though I was willing to give actress, Larisa Oleynik another try in future episodes. Eli felt her resemblance to MSNBC pundit and Rhodes Scholar, Rachel Maddow, is a little too uncanny for his taste.

He is also little more critical than usual of the superhero crime plot and comments that perhaps the writers might have been trolling the jumptheshark.com website for cliched storylines. We both enjoyed Johnny D, played by James Ransone from “The Wire” and ponder Kono’s impressive texting skills when she partnered with Danny at ‘Femme Nu.’

We also had to agree to disagree about the Wo Fat scene which I thought was well played and tense, but Eli outlined why he wasn’t so impressed.

Hope you enjoy it and please remember that any contributors, or comments about our podcast here or on iTunes are appreciated greatly! You will also be updated with the latest posts if you click above on our Like” button to become a fan on ourFacebook page at http://facebook.com/alohavermont! Thank you kindly and Aloha!

In this next installment of “Hawaii In Vermont” the ‘Hawaii Five-0″ TV Review Podcast, we discuss the ‘Pirate’ episode of CBS’s reboot of Hawaii Five-0 broadcast in early February entitled, ‘Powa Maka Moana” along with the more dramatic & disturbing “Loa Aloha” (Long Goodbye) which guest starred comedian, Dane Cooke.

We feature discussions of the above with co-host, Eli, and also a bit about his ventures into another language other than Hawaiian, “Piratese” or “Piratatian”, or whatever…arrgh and how he uses it on Facebook.

This was the first new podcast since my winter break trip to Oahu so we talk about that as well as include an excerpt of some of the juicy audio I recorded with many prominent bloggers who live on the island of Oahu. In this show I have included some of an interview with the enigmatic and always informative Officer808 of 50Undercover.com .

Remember, as always that feedback is very much appreciated in the comments section of iTunes or at this podcast’s home blog, Alohavermont.com or feel free to send an email to info@alohavermont.com to have your comments read in the next podcast.

According to the “Hollywood Reporter” on Friday, Scott Caan’s famous father, James Caan has just signed up to be represented by the Paradigm agency after having been previously with ICM.

Scott is also represented by the same agency. His father, James is best known for his Academy Award nominated role in The Godfather, and has had a 50 year career which has included films such as Funny Lady (1975), Misery (1990) and Elf (2003).

Caan is set to begin shooting a comedy, Columbia’s ‘I Hate You, Dad’ later this month with Adam Sandler and SNL’s Andy Samberg.

Scott Caan isn’t a Dad, but he plays one on TV and Starpulse.com in their tribute to Father’s Day listed him as one of the hottest because of his character’s amazing dedication to his daughter on the show. You can read the full article at their site here. Here’s the excerpt about our hero!

Detective Danny Williams, Hawaii Five-0

Technically, the next hot dad is a television character on the CBS cop show, “Hawaii Five-0” brought to sarcastic life by actor Scott Caan, 34 (son to award-winning actor, James Caan). Still, Detective Danny Williams deserves to win top honors in fatherhood. After his divorce, Williams left his beloved state of New Jersey to move to Hawaii to spend weekends with his daughter, Grace. While some celebrity fathers having children with their mistresses (Arnold Schwarzenegger), this daddy is sacrificing everything just to be a parent. Fictional or not, that is the hottest thing of all.

We do need to acknowledge that actor Alex O’Loughlin is a father of a teen and Daniel Dae Kim has kids of his own too so HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to them, all the cast and crew of our favorite series as well as every Dad out there today!

Hmmm….maybe a coupon for the series on DVD that will be available soon is a good present for that special Father in your life!!!

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This article from Mother Nature Network, discusses the new series starring Michelle Borth, filmed in Canada and premiering June 21. Borth is best known for HBO’s “Tell Me You Love Me” and as fans know for her recurring role on “Hawaii Five-0,” as Steve McGarrett’s sometime romantic interest. In this new series she plays a military doctor in the series, which focuses on the personnel of a medical unit in southern Afghanistan in 2006. “It’s about the struggle that they go through professionally and personally in wartime.” says Borth. The actress will be on set until August filming the series.

Peter Lenkov agreed to answer 12 questions about the new Hawaii Five-0 series for some international fans which do NOT appear to have any spoilers so feel free to enjoy this fresh take on how he feels about the past season! The Interview is by Gaby Eichberger & Christine Schmidt for MyCoven.com and is available in German as well! Here are a few of the questions and answers. Make sure to click on the link below for the rest of the interview!

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To start us off, here’s a warm-up question for you: What was your motivation, your interest in creating a new, modern version of an old show?

PL: Motivation? My father was a huge fan of the original show and I remember him watching it religiously when I was a child…. so the show meant something to me. I understood it. I also felt that there was still areas to explore, character for instance, that I could expand on, and in some ways add value to the franchise.
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A large part of H50’s appeal is the onscreen chemistry between the actors. Is that something that right in the beginning influenced your casting decision or was it a fortunate “organic” development?

PL: I think we all knew from the beginning that if we didn’t cast this show right, we’d die pretty quickly. The relationships were all there on the page, but they needed great actors to really bring them to life… and we hit a home run with all of our casting choices.
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Did you start out with a clear-cut idea of where the story was headed? Do you have something like a master plan for your entire story arc?

PL:I knew from the start what season 1 would look like, what the arcs were and how it would end. Of course those were was all just “ideas”, I needed writers besides myself to make it happen… and luckily ended up with a great writing staff that helped me bring those ideas to fruition. I also had some general thoughts in mind for season 2, but a lot of what is coming up is being built now in the writers room.
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How did the individual looks/styles of the main characters develop? Is that something the actors came up with, or were there drawings and ideas beforehand?

PL:Creating a TV show is really a team effort and there is a great crew behind what you see every week. From wardrobe to sets, everything is very carefully decided upon. And of course we take our actors opinions into consideration since they know their character best.
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H50 has been incredibly successful right from the start. What are the contributing factors for that success in your opinion?

Last but not least in the “Hawaii In Vermont” podcast’s special edition, Hawaiian Blogger series, we have an interview recorded while on the recent trip I made this winter to Hawaii. Blogger, Wendie Burbridge, is a published writer, playwright and teacher of Language arts at the Kamehameha Schools- Kapalamacampus on Oahu.

I interviewed Wendie while we were waiting for a scene to be filmed for an upcoming episode of Hawaii Five-0 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. You can find video and scenes of that at my Hawaii In Vermont Facebook Page. Meanwhile sit back and enjoy this audio interview which is a fascinating look at the new Hawaii Five-0′ impact on Hawaii from the point of view of native Hawaiian, local writer and schoolteacher,@WendieJoy!

My third interview in the “Hawaiian Blogger Interview Series” was with Ryan Ozawa. Ryan works and lives in Oahu and is involved in just about every facet of media and technology you can think of.

He is best known as the creator and host with his wife, Jen, of possibly the most popular podcast on “Lost” called “The Transmission” which is how I got to know about him. Last year, when the series ended, “The New York Times” profiled him in an article entitled, “Finding Themselves In Lost” which I highly recommend you read!

Ryan’s was the only “Lost” podcast broadcasting from the actual location where Lost was filmed on the island of Oahu. I thought that his audio episodes offered one of the most insightful looks at “Lost” and had the special bonus of his knowledge of where most of the scenes were filmed. For my blogger series, I was interested in Ryan’s point of view on the reboot of Hawaii Five-O, which he chose not to focus on in a dedicated podcast. Ryan was the first to encourage me to do my own podcast which is how the “Hawaii In Vermont” Podcast came into existence.

In this interview we talked about his former Lost Podcast, how he got his start podcasting, his opinions on the impact of tv filming on location in Hawaii, and how he and other locals view the two shows.

You can keep up with Ryan on his Hawaii blog, at HawaiiWebLog.com. To listen to Ryan’s own podcasts you can search on the Internet for “Popspotting“, his pop culture podcast or for more on “Lost”, you can search for “The Transmission” to find out when Ryan and Jen will be posting their next and probably last episode about the show. Also, don’t forget to be on the lookout for his witty preview articles of new Hawaii Five-0 episodes on the website NonstopHonolulu.com.

Again, stay tuned for the final Hawaiian blogger interview in this Special Edition of the “Hawaii In Vermont” podcast. It is with Wendie Burbridge, blogger for the Hawaii Star Advertiser’s Pulse website with her own Hawaii Five-0 blog entitled, “Five-0 Redux.”

Also, don’t miss our next regular episode of “Hawaii In Vermont” which will review the newest Hawaii Five-0 episode scheduled to air Monday, March 21st and entitled, “Na Me’e Laua Na Paio” (Heroes and Villains.)

Finally! I am happy to be posting 2 parts of my special edition of our podcast I have entitled the Hawaiian Blogger Series. These are interviews I conducted on location with local Hawaii Five-0 bloggers when I visited Oahu, last month in February.

The first of the series is with Officer808 (aka @H50undercover on Twitter), from 50Undercover.com of the always witty and informative,Hawaii Five-0 Undercover blog. Listeners to our regular Hawaii Five-0 podcast will recognize his name from the many times he has contributed valuable location information and trivia to our reviews.

The second interview is with @AlohaBruce of a very cool, local travel company. Bruce even has his own smartphone App in the App store also named Hawaii-Aloha for avid Hawaiian lovers and travelers. He is also a fellow podcaster and vidcaster of his own on the Hawaii-Vacation Connection blog about travel to the aloha state. While I was there I interviewed Bruce and he in turn interviewed me for his vidcast and a few days later he joined me to watch the filming of the final scene in next weeks episode, #19 to be broadcast on Monday, March 21st. If you squint and use a telescope you may be able to catch our table in the final scene in “deep, deep” background. You can also look at both Officer808’s as well as AlohaBruce’s blogs for video he shot of the filming.

The final interviews I will be posting in the next few days will be those I conducted with famed “Lost” podcaster, blogger and tech guru Ryan Ozawa as well as the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s Pulse blogger, Wendie Burbridge who writes reviews of the show on her Five-0 Redux blog.

These new friends were incredible hosts while I was in their state and offered me great hospitality and the true Aloha spirit! Please make sure you check out their websites and blogs and leave them comments and feedback for them.

As always I welcome your input, comments and feedback as well! Please remember that all my podcasts are available here or on iTunes where you can subscribe to them for free! I would love if people would leave me some itunes feedback also! If you would like to contribute audio or emails or tweets to the show please communcate here, or at info@alohavermont.com or at my twitter handle: @websouffle !

Audio can be recorded and send via email to the above address as well or just email me and I can arrange to record a voice mail or skype session!

We get a lot of “Lost” connections, meet Rachel’s husband, Stan, channel Rambo & Predator as well as learn about some tasty Hawaiian treats!

Make sure to leave feedback in the comments section of iTunes or at this podcast’s home blog, Alohavermont.com or feel free to send an email to info@alohavermont.com to have your comments read in the next podcast.

Show Notes for Episode #2

Trivia:

The actor in “He Kane Hewa Ole” playing Nicole’s father was Greg Germann who is best known from the groundbreaking tv show, “Ally McBeal”

CHIPS originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977 to June 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol. The series ran for 139 episodes over six seasons.

Erik Estrada, best known for playing Officer “Ponch” Ponchinello on CHIPS appeared as ‘Rono’ in Hawaii-Five-0 (TV-1973) entitled “Engaged to Be Buried”

“Kai e’ e'” (Tsunami) was broadcast at a very special time- Sunday, Jan 23rd instead of Monday after the AFC football championship. In the east it ran right after the Pittsburg Steelers played and won against the New York Jets.

There was a similiar episode on the original Hawaii Five-O where a fake tsunami is also engineered as a distraction for a crime.

The actress/singer JOJO, or Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque, was actually born in Brattleboro, Vermont, the home state of this Podcast!

KAM FONG’s played the orig Chin Ho Kelly. His son, Dennis Chun, who also appeared on the original Five-0, plays recurring role as Sgt Duke Lukela and was in this ep. Referred to as “Little Chin”

Danny refers to “…sleeping with the fishes” which may be a shout out to the movie “Godfather. In the film the famous line “Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes” is said to Sonny, played by Scott Caan’s father, James Caan.

Danno says “Oy Vey” in Kai e’e, his second yiddish word in two episodes.. He starts to call Steve a “Schmuck” for buying parts online in “He Kane Hewa Ole.” Are the writers trying to tell us something? The actor’s father, James Caan is in fact, Jewish.

Good press and interviews from Australian media with the leads, Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan about the new version of Hawaii Five 0 and the original. Very refreshing comments from the always blunt, Scott Caan.

Crime wave … Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan.

Hawaii Five-0 was a stone-cold classic but the stars of the remake have no time for nostalgia, writes Michael Idato.

With a theme song that prompts many to start paddling an imaginary canoe and a title that is one of the best-known in television history, the remake of the 1970s police series Hawaii Five-0 has television’s answer to a free pass.

The original series, which aired from 1968 to 1980 and lived on in repeats for at least another decade, starred Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett, a detective with a bulletproof hairdo who collared bad guys with the immortal line “Book ’em, Danno”, directed at colleague Danny Williams (James MacArthur).

The idea of remaking the show has been kicking around Los Angeles for more than a decade. A pilot was mounted in 1996 but abandoned. A film adaptation was then developed but also abandoned. In 2008, CBS developed a second pilot with Criminal Minds producer Ed Bernero. A year later a third pilot, this time with Alex Kurtzman (Alias) and Roberto Orci (Fringe) at the helm, got the go-ahead.

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In the new Hawaii Five-0, Australian actor Alex O’Loughlin plays Steve McGarrett, the son of former cop Jack McGarrett (his first name is a nod to the show’s original star). Danno is played by Scott Caan, the son of actor James Caan.

The other two key policing roles from the original, Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua, are played by Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) and Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica) respectively.

In addition to the usual police show tropes and some fairly impressive cinema-style action sequences, the first episode delves into Steve’s relationship with his late father and that of Danno with his daughter, Grace.

Speaking to the Guide on location in Honolulu, O’Loughlin says the series, aside from the more conventional business of policing in Hawaii, uses those two relationships to explore what it means to be a father.

“Steve grew up in the military, away from his father, so becoming a man, surrounded by other men, has forged him into this machine,” he says. “He has a hard edge, a rigidity, but it’s also established this sense of displacement, so every time he sees Danno with Grace, it’s such a core thing for him – all of his pain, all of this other stuff, comes from that core. Any time he’s exposed to it, it’s difficult for him.”

Caan lopes into the interview with a slightly different energy. “This show is so many different things,” he says. “Most shows are one thing and I think they’re trying to tackle a lot of things with this show. We pull them in the direction of character, we say ‘let’s talk about our wives and kids’ [because] as actors that’s what we want to play with, but CBS has made a trillion dollars in procedurals. Nobody is right, nobody is wrong.”

Striking a balance between procedural and character-based elements is a tricky one and the new Hawaii Five-0 comes at a time when US viewers seem to be tiring of straight procedurals. Even the most clinical examples of the genre – the CSIs and Law & Orders – have begun to dabble in character.

Hawaii Five-0 finds the balance with ease, aided perhaps by the audience’s willingness to imagine Hawaii’s police force tackles cases that are a little more left of field than their colleagues in New York, Boston or Los Angeles.

For his part, O’Loughlin says he is sick of watching straight police procedurals. “I think America is sick of it as well,” he says. “They sit down and watch it but I think they’re ready for something else. We know they work – that’s why the network machine pushes them out – but good television is good television, no matter where the world is at.

“This was an opportunity to have that procedural drama format but to fill it with great character stories and we have the old show we can reach back to for inspiration.”

That said, neither actor appears to have much interest in the original series. “I’ve never seen it; I don’t care,” Caan says with trademark candour. “I literally don’t care at all. I’m not nostalgic in that way.”

O’Loughlin says his recollections are hazy. “I knew the theme song, like we all do. I remember Jack Lord’s hair. I remember long-lens foot chases through Hawaii. I remember an old cop show and that’s about it.”

Both made a decision not to watch old episodes when preparing for the show. “When I took the job, I decided not to watch the original, whether it’s genius, crap or whatever,” Caan says.

“I don’t think I can get anything from that. They’re totally different shows. It’s a title, a theme song and a location, that’s all.”

O’Loughlin agrees. “It’s not only a different time in television, television itself has changed and there is no more strange, stylised posturing. We go for truth now; we have the technology and means to put on the screen incredible action sequences. It’s a whole different animal.”